Facebook Map the World!

Facebook has used it's data to map out its 500 million members around the world.

Google Nicaraguan map error threatens to escalate into regional dispute

Nicaragua to take Costa Rica border quarrel to international court of justice after Organisation of American States intervenes




http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/15/google-map-dispute-nicaragua

Go Animate!

Another fantastic resource that allows Learners to make cartoons and charachters for free! Againt he websites allows learners to make their own cartoon strips and can do it on a number of topics such as Hot deserts or a cartoon on what I learned in class today. This is a great tool as it is engaging and free to use online!



http://goanimate.com/

Pixton- Useful Comic Strip Website

Pixton.com is a great website that allows learners to create online Comic Strips that can be used as a valueable way to display concepts, ideas and as a revision tool.




The website offers learners with he opporuniy to create their own storyboards giving them the opportunity to be creative and engaged in the activity. However the software is cost money to be registered and use, however it canbe downloaded for a 14 day trail whoch could be enough time to use it for a topic.

Touchscreen Breakthrough could revolutionise Education

A new multi touch screen technology has been unvieled by Jeff Han. The touch screen technology allows users to interact with the screen using multi 'pressure points' allowing the users to multitask on screen doing a number of tasks at the same time as well as allowing many users to use the touchscreen at the same time. This technology could revolutionise smart boards in classrooms as it would allow learers to do a number of tasks and work in collaboration wih other learners.

The new touch screen also comes with many applications that could potentially be used in many ways that could have a massive impact in the way learners interact with with smartboards and with ICT. Such applications include uploading and editing images and more interestingly using NASA's data images of the Earth to create an interactive planet Earth that can e accessed at the movement of a finger and creating 3D images, check out the clip below to see the touch screen in action.http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html